Abstract
The study of cognitive, linguistic and social mechanisms underlying human interaction has become a useful tool for the description (and understanding) of the complexity of human mind, through the analysis of specific sociocultural manifestations. This study involves a diversity of disciplines determining specific aims and objectives that focus on a large multiplicity of situations and events. Intercultural communication processes are one of the most recent objects in the epistemological field of applied linguistics (Dervin & Liddicoat, 2013), namely in the large disciplinary domain of Discourse Analysis. However, such a multidimensional object requires a multidimensional and plural approach comprising theories that are inscribed in diverse disciplinary backgrounds linked to this specific epistemological domain: discourse analysis, conversational analysis, critical discourse analysis, psycholinguistics and communication studies. The specific lens used by each of these disciplinary fields will merge into a multi-layered and scaled model, in order to complexify the analytical models available so far. This paper concerns the design of such a model. Its application to the analysis of an authentic corpus of plurilingual interactions will demonstrate the coherence and efficiency of our approach.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Research papers on teaching english as an additional language |
Editors | İsmail Hakkı Mirici, İsmail Hakkı Erten, Hüseyin Öz, Irena Vodopija-Krstanović |
Place of Publication | Rijeka |
Publisher | University of Rijeka |
Chapter | 3 |
Pages | 31-60 |
Number of pages | 30 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789537975272 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Intercomprehension
- Plurilingual interactions
- Applied linguistics
- Intercultural studies